Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Business and Economy
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Business and Economy We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Business and Economy
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Business and Economy If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Business and Economy "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Business and Economy
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Business and Economy Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Business and Economy
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Business and Economy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Business and Economy
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Business and Economy Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Business and Economy Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Business and Economy
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Business and Economy Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Business and Economy
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Business and Economy I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Business and Economy
